The Shiva Lingam, used for meditation as the crystal (Crypto-Crystaline Quartz) resonates at one of the highest frequencies that we know an inanimate object to do. Strangely we have only discovered this in recent years yet for centuries this has been
Penning the Air
Looking for the origins of the name ‘Jew’s harp’
by Michael WRIGHT
One of the most time consuming, frustrating and yet ultimately rewarding pastimes is being, what a friend of mine dubbed, a ‘word archaeologist’. While others might
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I have a student whose name is Leif Costantini who has learnt the Jew's Harp with me for more than half a year. At the same time he has practised the throat singing with me and has progressed in creating more overtones , and the clear and strong ones
Wang Li's compositions are generally inspired by his own experience: memories of childhood and his family, his life. He has fond memories of nursery rhymes and counting songs, whose simple rhythms he still appreciates.
The jew's harp is one of hi
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Nadishana is a marvellous Jew's harper who creates new sounds with the Jew's harp and also create new combined Jew's harp (as in this video, he used 5 Vietnamese dàn môi fixed together to invent the new type of Jew's harp) .
He invents new techniq
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You can listen to Leo Tadagawa , a Japanese Jew's harper. He played the Chinese Jew's Harp KOU XIANG.
This Jew's harp has 4 independant small brass idioglottic Jew's harp (that means the frame of the instrument and the lamella constituting the sa
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Introductory Notes accompanying the CD (PAN Records) produced by Bernard Kleikamp on Jew’s Harps in the World released during the International Jew’s Harp Festival in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) (28-30 July 2006)
Different names of the Jew's harp
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